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Ron has held a Personal Chair at the School of Electronic Engineering
since 1986. From 1986 to 1998 he was Director of the Institute of
Molecular and Biomolecular Electronics at Bangor, and between 1998
to 2003 he was seconded to Aura BioSystems Inc, California, serving
first as Vice-President for Research and then as CEO. He remains
a Board Member of this company. He enjoys a long association with
the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole - being elected a Corporation
Member in 1982 and as an Adjunct Senior Scientist in 2005. In January
2006 he became the first recipient of the Eugene and Millicent Bell
Endowed Fellowship in Tissue Engineering at the MBL.
Holds Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Southampton) and
Physical Chemistry (Nottingham), a D.Sc. in Biomolecular Electronics
(Southampton), and is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical
Engineers and Member of the Institute of Physics. Honours include
an Innovation Prize awarded jointly by the Institutions of Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers and the British Design Council (1988),
as well as the 1994 Innovation Awards of the Institute of Physical
Sciences in Medicine, and the Biological Engineering Society. In
2001, he was the first recipient of the Herman P Schwan Award for
work in biodielectrics. He is a named inventor on 14 patents, and
has authored one book and more than 200 peer reviewed publications.
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